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Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

~Andrew Young

Topics: Anything Birmingham Black Dream Had Jail Learned Letter Nobody People Revelation Speech White I Have A Dream

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Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the U.K. and one of the best in the world. The city has supported music without putting on the brakes.

~Andris Nelsons

Topics: Best Birmingham Building City Concert Concert Hall Did Finest Hall Music Putting Remarkable Supported Symphony Thing Truly Which Without World

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I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham.

~Annie Leibovitz

Topics: Birmingham Blessed Classroom Feel Had Her Opportunity Photograph Unbelievably I Feel

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Black churches have long been targets of white supremacists who burned and bombed them in an effort to terrorize the black communities those churches anchored. One of the most egregious terrorist acts in U.S. history was committed against a black church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Acts Against Anchored Been Birmingham Black Bombed Burned Church Churches Committed Communities Effort History Long Most Targets Terrorist Them Those White Who

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While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the terror those and similar acts impose on communities seems to have been forgotten post-Sept. 11, 2001.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Acts Also Been Birmingham Bombing Church Communities Forgotten Historic Impose Most Recognition Seems Series Similar Terror Those While 1990S

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I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.

~April Bloomfield

Topics: Birmingham Forever Good Good Teachers Had Holiday Hotel Inn Kitchen Knew Learn Progress Some Sponge Started Teachers Want Wanted Work

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I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.

~Charles Hazlewood

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Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world. People respond to a certain down-to-earthness that I have, and that's purely as a result of coming from Birmingham.

~David Harewood

Topics: Around Birmingham Carried Certain Coming Earth Me People Purely Respond Result Salt World

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I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

~David Harewood

Topics: Barbados Birmingham Catering Dad Driver Grew Long-Distance Mother Originally Parents Romeo Up Worked

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I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.

~David Harewood

Topics: Birmingham Black Environment Grew Indian Irish Kids Multicultural Really Up

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